Word: clinkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times, does Fellini. In the film's first half, a visiting TV documentary team interviews the musicians and gets a lively response. A flutist turns a cartwheel. A drummer attacks the piano as a "chatterbox." An insomniac trumpeter confides that with his instrument, "a clinker is death." Once anarchy takes hold, however, the idiosyncratic individuals are drowned out by the director's spectacle...
...people behind this clinker are the same gang who only last year concocted A Bridge Too Far. It's just possible that they are in the wrong line of work. Bridge was a long and costly war movie that never clearly indicated who was winning its pivotal battle. Magic is a thriller that gives away its one and only surprise in the opening scenes. Maybe next year Producer Joe Levine, Director Richard Attenborough and Writer William Goldman will create a musical without songs. Or a western set in Paris. With these guys, the possibilities are endless...
Though every talented film maker has the right to make a clinker now and then, Lina Wertmuller has really outdone herself in her first English-language film. This all too cutely titled comedy is not merely a failure: it's a devastating self-parody. Indeed, audiences who sit through it may well begin to wonder why they ever admired such superior Wertmuller efforts as Love and Anarchy and Seven Beauties. Or they may wonder if they stay awake...
...Soviet air-weapons technology. But U.S. experts who were dispatched to Japan for a three-week study of the aircraft have come to a different and surprising conclusion: the much-touted superplane brought to the West by Soviet Air Force 1st Lieut. Viktor Belenko is, in many respects, a clinker...
Bewitched Bayou was dull, though, and unless Bill Strong can re-write his book and lyrics into some better kind of shape, it's going to be a long-running clinker of a musical. Pudding shows were never supposed to get too wound up in the intricacies of plot, but Bayou's is stretched so thin it snaps between a few of the scenes...